The Big Data world continues to attract attention both in terms of users and in terms of funding. In the world of Big Data, Hadoop is king. At the pinnacle of the Hadoop ecosystem sits commercial vendor Cloudera, which this…
DataRPM, which Enterprise Apps Today selected as one of its five hot Big Data startups in December, has closed a $5.1 million Series A funding round. Led by InterWest Partners and joined by CIT GAP Funds, the round will be…
The Data Mining Group, a vendor-led consortium of companies and organizations developing standards for statistical and data mining models, has released v 4.2 of the Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML), an XML interchange format for statistical and data mining models.…
Linux vendor Red Hat is expanding its partnership with Big Data Hadoop vendor Hortonworks today. The expanded partnership includes the delivery of the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) Plug-in for Red Hat storage. “The HDP Plug-in for Red Hat Storage has…
Sailthru, a provider of Big Data-driven automated marketing software that recently raised $20 million in funding, has introduced Advanced Analytics, an offering the company says enables marketers to identify revenue and retention opportunities from customer behavior trends and interactions with…
Open source content management system (CMS) Joomla today introduced Joomla 3.2, which offers a revamped extension development and installation process. It also contains a record number of new features and improvements, including version control, Rapid Application Development (RAD), an extension…
Jive Software released a slew of updates to its flagship social platform at its JiveWorld13 event in Las Vegas this week. According to a news release, Jive’s goal is to replace “dusty old portals” with a more modern communication and…
The open source Apache Hadoop project has become synonymous in recent years with the Big Data ecosystem. Today the biggest update since the start of the Hadoop project is becoming generally available, with the release of Hadoop 2.0 Building Hadoop…
By Russell Rothstein Choosing the best business intelligence tool can be a confusing process. There are dozens of vendors of business intelligence and Big Data analytics solutions whose marketing messages all sound alike. I founded IT Central Station to help…
In all the hype surrounding Big Data and its potential benefits, little time has been spent talking about its security implications. That is, until now. Hadoop vendor Cloudera today announced its new open source Sentry technology that aims to help…